Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idealistic democracy learn to operate its foreign policy on a cold, calculating, day-to-day basis? Can it break the cycle of military lethargy and emotional fist-shaking, learn to think in terms of "rational and restricted purposes" and withstand the shrill cries of press and politicians who demand extremes? Says Kennan: "History does not forgive us our national mistakes because they are explicable in terms of our domestic policies . . . A nation which excuses its own failures by the sacred untouchableness of its own habits can excuse itself into complete disaster...
Mexican Artist José Gutierrez, an instructor at the National Polytechnic Institute, has experimented with every kind of medium from ordinary house paint to the newest plastics to determine which can best withstand the elements. Last week Gutierrez made a gloomy prediction about Diego Rivera's latest mural in the water distribution chamber of Mexico City's new water system (TIME, June...
...high pressures are obtained in a tiny 'pressurized laboratory' which is a miniature hydraulic press. Naturally the size of the lab is restricted, because the wall must be heavy enough to withstand the pressures. Bridgman normally used a 'laboratory' that occupies a cylindrical space only half an inch in diameter and three inches long...
Because of its vast land mass, its self-sustaining peasant economy, its 5,000 miles of friendly Russian border, Red China may withstand limited economic sanctions. It can feed itself, after a fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...
...than he used in the junior varsity race last week. In that race Lincoln got his second boat off to a very fast start against Yale and Princeton, and held a two-length lead for most of the event, but the Crimson could not get up its stroke to withstand a finishing sprint by the Elis...